Timeline of Intestinal Adaptation After Malabsortive Surgery: Effect of Luminal Nutrients, Biliopancreatic Secretion, and Glutamine Supplementation.
José Manuel Martínez MorenoAlexander Reyes-OrtizJosé María Lage SánchezPilar Sánchez-GallegosManuel Garcia-CaballeroPublished in: Obesity surgery (2018)
The intestinal adaptation process in animals that underwent BPBP was less intense than in those that underwent massive short bowel resection and more intense than in those that underwent transection only. Supplementation with glutamine did not improve any of the parameters studied, although it did appear to accelerate the adaptive process.